[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Yana Welinder]

We're meeting with EFF after Wikimania to discuss how we can develop a
common policy on this topic.


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Jens Best <jens.best at wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Well,
>
> my first repsonse to Erics text:
>
> a lot of words, a lot of "believing in this & that", some emotional
> storytelling - but nothing on the simple fact that any zero-rating is a
> clear violation of net neutrality.
>
> So, is this supposed to be the opening of a discussion? For me this text
> doesn't sound like that any discussion with an open result is possible or
> even welcomed.
>
> This text is in clear contradiction to the recent statement of EFF. So is
> the Foundation willingly trying to violate one of the basic principles of
> an open web just to be part of the Facebook Zero, Google Zero, Coke Zero -
> Group? Is the foundation really that naive to not see that this way it
> becomes part of the marketing machine of access providers to deteriorate
> user habits?
>
> So, as a net neutrality advocate somebody has to ask him-/herself if
> he/she really wants to participate in a discussion which result is already
> determined. What is EFF saying to this clear violation of net neutrality by
> WMF?
>
> best regards
>
> Jens Best
>
>
> 2014-08-02 0:48 GMT+02:00 Yana Welinder <ywelinder at wikimedia.org>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wanted to follow up on the discussion on Wikipedia Zero and net
>> neutrality on this list. We just posted a discussion on this topic:
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/
>>
>> Best,
>> Yana
>>
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